All doctors know the importance of correct timing, as Naso (7) emphasizes near the start of the poem: temporis ars medicina fere est: data tempore prosunt / et data non apto tempore vina nocent ("Medicine is largely the art of timing: given at the right time, wine helps, but given at the wrong time, it harms," 131-32; cf.

Nocent states outright that he is not going to deal with the pastoral issues surrounding confirmation (79), but he is critical of how liturgical commissions approach the theology of confirmation: they start with their pastoral concerns and presuppositions and so lose objectivity, since they want to find the answers they are looking for.

In this weighty and important cause which now is in question, the discovery of the truth whereof so much concerneth the glory of God, and the honour of our service, wee cannot satisfie our owne conscience, if any course should be left unattempted, wherby the foulenes of so haynous a facte may be layde open to the view of the world, both that therby the innocent may be cleared, and the nocent punished, and the care of our Justice against the virulent malice of slanderous tongues, both be blessed in this present age and heareafter be recommended to eternal posterity.

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